Matthew Singer

Is it safe to say movies are back? Sure, there’s still plenty of anxiety around the film industry and its future. But cinematically speaking, 2026 has gotten off to, arguably, the most blazing hot start since the pre-pandemic glory days, both critically and at the box office.  Of course, for our purposes, we like to focus on the creative successes, and it’s rare for the first quarter of any year to produce so many achievements of various scopes and budgets. Any time you get both a Project Hail Mary and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – not to mention leftfield triumphs like The Testament of Ann Lee, Sirât and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – all before the calendar’s halfway point, you know it’s a good time to be a film fan, especially when there are new spectacles from Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Marvel and the Dune franchise on the horizon.  But that’s later. Here’s the best of what we’ve seen so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

It’s not easy being a teen. The specifics change from generation to generation, but the struggle is universal: you’re perched between childhood and adulthood, trying to figure out the world and yourself, as your hormones rage and your peers are at their cruellest. So it’s no surprise that filmmakers continually return to their high-school years for inspiration – it’s at once the most dramatic and hilarious time in anyone’s life. Unsurprisingly, Netflix has a ton of movies exploring the trials, tribulations and emotional turbulence of adolescence. And it isn’t all awkward sex and overblown emotions – though there’s plenty of both, of course. On this list of the best teen movies currently streaming on Netflix, you’ll find good-natured romcoms, young-adult dramas, movies about superheroes, basketball, vampires and cheating on college entrance exams.  Recommended: 🧒 The 100 best teen movies of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedy movies👪 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages🤗 The best feelgood movies on Netflix

At this point, Wes Anderson needs no introduction, nor do many movie fans need to be convinced how to feel about his work. Either you find his delicate, immaculate world-building good enough to eat, or you react to his twee sensibilities with nausea. No matter where on the spectrum you fall, though, Anderson is one of the most distinctive filmmakers of his generation, if not all-time. We’ve ranked his movies from worst to best – and despite his detractors’ claims, his films are different enough to distinguish between.   Recommended: 🎬 The best Quentin Tarantino movies, ranked 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time📽️ The best films of 2025 (so far)

Look, long movies are great. Luxuriating in a slow-moving epic that spans generations? It’s the stuff cinephiles live for. But sometimes, life intervenes, and plonking down on the couch for two-plus hours and drifting off into another world isn’t an option. In the situations where time is tight, or you just don’t have the brain capacity or attention span for anything longer, you might simply be in the market for a quick-hit dose of entertainment before moving on with your life. If that’s the case, these 25 sub-90-minute gems are exactly what you’re looking for.  Recommended: 🆓 35 legitimately great movies you can watch for free on YouTube🔥 The best movies of 2026 (so far)📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)

From the calming landscapes and detailed fantasy worlds of Studio Ghibli classics to the cyberpunk chaos of manga adaptations Akira and Ghost in the Shell, anime films have come to rule our imaginations with their sprawling worldbuilding, hand-drawn designs and stirring heroes. And there aren’t just for children: Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki has given us childhood classics like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, but don’t neglect the likes of Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika), whose animations explore the human condition and our technological anxieties in stunning style.Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks still offer animated Hollywood fare but anime has become a rival not just in terms of quality but box office too. The ten highest-grossing Japanese films worldwide are all anime hits: Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, Your Name, Spirited Away and more. For the uninitiated, it can be a lot to take in, but we’re here to help with our list of the best classic and contemporary anime films. Fire up Crunchyroll and prepare to get obsessed. Recommended: 🔥 The best animes of 2026 (so far)✍️ The 100 best animated films of all-time🇯🇵 The best Japanese movies ever made🤖 The 10 best Pixar movies

If you were lucky enough to grow up pre-Y2K, you would have likely known little about Korea beyond the conflict in the back pages of your school history book. But that all changed when, in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the country doubled down on funding exportable pop culture in an attempt to rebrand the country on the world stage. The gambit, part designed to attract big business and tourism, was a wild success – and now we have K-Pop, K-dramas and kimchi pouring out of our ears. One of the biggest proponents of the ‘hallyu’ wave, though, has always been filmmaking – with Hollywood-style action blockbuster Shiri; brutal revenge thriller Oldboy; and Academy Awards triumph Parasite among the most resounding victories of a national cinema revitalised from the brink of anonymity. We simply can’t get enough of it today. And for good reason: South Korea is a goldmine of original ideas and storytelling talents who show no signs of taking their feet off the gas as the industry thrives. So why not huff on the metaphorical fumes? Our list of the best Korean movies of all time billows below.Recommended:🇫🇷 The 100 best French movies of all-time🇯🇵 The 50 best Japanese movies of all-time🇭🇰 The 100 best Hong Kong movies of all-time🇮🇹 The best Italian movies of all time: from Bicycle Thieves to The Great Beauty

Updates for 2026: It's not surprise that the Ryan Gosling-starring megahit Project Hail Mary has been added to our space movie canon — it's both a major-league blockbuster and an extraordinary piece of entertainment.  Space may be the final frontier, but filmmakers have been dreaming of it ever since the medium was invented. Indeed, even after humans made it there, cinema’s obsession with the universe beyond our small rock hasn’t abated, nor has interest from the general public – see the recent Artemis II mission, a rare moment of collective awe in a time of constant anger and unrest.  It’s not hard to understand why. Its infinite vastness is essentially a blank canvas on which to ponder all sorts of big ideas, whether it’s mankind’s place in the void, the human desire for exploration or the simple fear of the ultimate unknown. That’s why the ‘space movie’ deserves to be considered its own genre. Yes, many science-fiction movies are set in space. But not all movies about space are necessarily science fiction. Here are our picks for the 30 best movies that travel to infinity… and in many cases, beyond. Recommended: 👽 The 100 best science fiction movies of all-time😬 The 100 best thriller films of all-time💣 The 101 best action movies ever made🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time 

Updated for 2026: The year 2025 gave us two new great sports movies, about two entirely different sports: ping-pong in the feature-length panic attack of Marty Supreme and, well, F1 in F1: The Movie, a more straightforward car-racing drama that nevertheless features some of the most breathless race scenes ever put on film. For non-fans, sports might seem trivial – frivolous games played by millionaires who make more money than teachers and doctors. On the surface, those detractors aren’t entirely wrong. But if you look closer, sports are also a natural conduit for drama, for triumphant displays of the human spirit and, sometimes, for reminders that things don’t always turn out the way we want them.  Clearly, it’s no surprise why filmmakers often look to sports for inspiration. Sure, it’s a genre built on clichés. But the best sports movies are able to surprise us, either by turning the tropes inside-out or delivering them with such emotional authenticity, they punch audiences in the hearts regardless. On this list of the 50 greatest sports movies of all-time, you’ll find examples of both. Scotchgard your couch, because you’re going to be jumping on it a lot. RECOMMENDED:🤾 The best Olympics movies🏀 The best basketball movies🌊 The 15 most epic surf movies🔎 The best biopics of all-time, ranked

Want to get away? Of course you do. After all, the real world isn’t exactly giving most of us too many reasons to want to stay put. Film is a powerful tool for escaping reality, and no genre can transport you to a different place better than fantasy. Need to forget all the war and oppression and violence and learn some spells, slay dragons or just get stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over until you discover the true meaning of love? Just refer to walk with elves and orcs? A great fantasy film won’t just show you a different universe – it will take you there. Yes, fantasy is the ultimate form of escapism. But for the purposes of this list, we’re not limiting the definition of ‘fantasy’ to epics set in alternate dimensions and faraway planets. You’ll also find movies of a more surreal bent, and some that reimagine our own planet as a place where magic, mystery and adventure is hiding in plain sight. Recommended: 🦸🏿 50 amazing comic-book movies🛸 The 100 best sci-fi movies of all time👹 The 50 best monster movies ever made👾 The 50 best ’80s movies, ranked

War has long fascinated filmmakers, going back to the birth of cinema, but none have proven so endlessly enthralling as World War II. It’s understandable, given the remarkable scale of the destruction, the atrocities involved and what it represented in the grand scheme of human history. So many movies have been made about the conflict, it almost stands apart from other war movies as a genre unto itself – and we’ll almost certainly see many more over the coming decades. It’s a daunting task, then, to choose the best World War II movies ever made. That’s why, along with polling our well-studied Time Out writers, we also called in an outside expert to come up with this definitive list: Quentin Tarantino, a man who knows a thing or two about making a great WWII film. Among the selections, you’ll find wide-scale epics, personal dramas, devastating documentaries, historical revisions and even a comedy or two. War, as we all know, is good for absolutely nothing – but at least we have these films to help make some sense of it. Written by Tom Huddleston, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Anna Smith, David Jenkins, Dan Jolin, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: ⚔️ The 50 best war movies of all-time🎖️ The best World War I movies, ranked by historical accuracy🇺🇸 The 20 best Memorial Day movies

Updates for 2026: Indisputably, the two most talked-about movies of 2025 were also among the best of the century. Ryan Coogler’s gangster-vampire-blues-musical-period-piece Sinners proved that original stories can still draw huge audiences, while One Battle After Another confirmed Paul Thomas Anderson as the brightest filmmaking mind of his generation. Movies were born in the 20th century, and the 21st century has nearly killed them. At least, that’s the common narrative. And it hasn’t seemed far from the truth: between internet piracy, the pandemic, the rise of television as the go-to storytelling medium, and ongoing corporate consolidation, the film industry has often felt imperilled throughout the first two decades of the new millennium.  But even among all the doom and gloom – or perhaps even because of it – film itself has continued to thrive. Genres have been mixed, matched and completely exploded. More diverse stories are being told than ever before. Blockbusters have reached unfathomable hugeness, while the smallest, strangest indies have won awards and reached vast audiences. If cinema in the 21st century has been defined by tumult, it’s also exemplified the ability of filmmakers to rise to the moment. These 100 movies represent the best of the last quarter-century so far. Written by David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf, Keith Uhlich, Stephen Garrett, Andrew Grant, Aaron Hillis, Tom Huddleston, Alim Kheraj, Tomris Laffly, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Maitland McDonagh, Tro

Adulthood is often compared to a treadmill for the way the daily grind of responsibilities and obligations manufactures the illusion of forward progress, keeping us running after goals that remain out of reach until we collapse in the same place we started.  But what if life is actually more like an inescapable underground station, where every corridor looks identical and the walls occasionally drip blood and produce hallucinations of crying babies and mutated rats? That’s where director Genki Kawamura takes us with his video-game adaptation. Same difference, maybe, but a much more useable concept for a horror movie.  A sparse, small-scale mindbender, Exit 8 is based on the viral video game of the same name and, for the first few minutes, plays like it. An unnamed young man (Japanese pop star Kazunari Ninomiya) rides a cramped subway train to his temp job in Tokyo. As he disembarks, he receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend. She’s pregnant. In his disorientation at the news, it takes him a moment to realise he’s walking in circles – down the same white-tiled hallway, past the same robotic NPC carrying a briefcase.  All that tablesetting is presented in a single, unbroken POV shot; once the protagonist recognises that something is amiss, the perspective changes, and that’s when the game, for him, truly begins. A helpful placard explains the rules: ‘If you find an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you do not find any anomalies, do not turn back.’ The goal, of course, is

French actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) has a face filmmakers love. Creased and pockmarked, with a bulbous nose and prominent ears, it’s the sort of visage that’s compelling to watch do practically anything. It serves Swedish director John Skoog’s oddly mesmerising monochrome folk tale particularly well, considering it’s essentially 90 minutes of watching one man’s massive DIY home renovation project. Call it ‘This Old Fortress’. Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession ​that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first. At the peak of the Cold War, Karl-Göran Persson, a farmhand in rural Sweden, dedicated his twilight years to transforming his modest cottage into a communal fallout shelter, or ‘redoubt.’ (In Swedish: ‘värn.’) Harvesting scrap metal, wood and whatever other junk he could get his hands on, then blowing his pension on concrete, he successfully constructed a fortification for a war that never came. Persson’s single-minded devotion is reflected in the filmmaking. Spinning off from his own award-winning art installation, Skoog and his crew rebuilt the shelter from scratch, and much of the runtime is given to observing Lavant, as Persson, gather and lay the materials. He jerryrigs a system to haul a pair of weighty railroad ties on his bike. He nearly saws down his favourite shade tree all by himself. He walks home swaddled in old t​yres, begrudgingly donated by a nearby garage. In his brief moments of leisure, he jams on ​the

‘When you are on a sinking ship,’ George Orwell wrote in 1948, ‘your thoughts will be about sinking ships’. He was describing the way fascism occupies the thoughts of those under its thumb, muting all other concerns, whether personal, political or trivial. Members of the Way-Too-Online Generation can certainly relate. After all, we now all carry tiny anxiety machines around in our pockets, creating a sense of hyper-awareness to the world’s atrocities that allows precious little room for comforting distractions.  In his documentary-cum-video essay Orwell: 2+2=5, director Raoul Peck juxtaposes the British writer’s words with a flood of the same distressing images inundating our social media feeds, from Ukraine to Gaza, South America to the United States. The film’s anti-mathematical title refers to a concept explored in Orwell’s most famous book, the dystopian sci-fi milestone 1984, of how despotic regimes reshape objective truth to their whims. It could just as easily be called Doomscroll: The Movie. The point, of course, is that the ship has been sinking for a long time, and Orwell saw the iceberg coming from a century away. Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, the author grew up in colonial India as part of what he called a ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family, spent a regrettable stretch participating in ‘the actual machinery of despotism’ as a member of the imperial police in Burma, then dedicated his career to not just critiquing totalitarianism but outlining its playbook. Drawin

How often does the best romantic comedy of the year also contain the year’s best fight scene? Probably as often as any romcom starts with a man standing over a dead stranger on the side of the highway, his penis unknowingly dangling from his shorts. Splitsville is full of surprises. Written by co-stars Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, and directed by Covino, the duo’s second feature is a screwball sex farce for an age when even the most buttoned-down couples are exploring ‘ethical non-monogamy’. Marvin is a cuddly schlub in the Jason Segel mold. Covino is his wealthier, hairier, more dickish best friend. Both are punching above their weight when it comes to their wives: the former is married to Andor’s Adria Arjona, the latter to Dakota Johnson. In a desperate bid to keep them from coming to their senses, both husbands propose opening their respective marriages — the ramifications of which neither is prepared to deal with. Of course, movies about normies awkwardly dabbling in polyamory go back at least as far as 1969’s Bob & Carole & Ted & Alice, and there are endless comedies involving dumb guys undone by their own insecurities. What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious.  What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious With 2019’s The Climb, another film about friends overstepping the boundaries of fidelity, Covino and Marvin placed themselves in the bromantic lineage of Judd Apatow, only with a greater penchant for slaps

Strange, ravishing and rhapsodic, there aren’t many movies like Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, unless you can think of another historical folk musical about a nearly-vanished religious movement that turns its followers’ convulsive expressions of devotion into Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. A cradle-to-grave portrait of Ann Lee, the founder of the Christian sect known as the Shakers, the film is, at turns, completely stunning and utterly baffling. At its most successful, though, it doesn’t just depict ecclesiastical fervor – it sweeps you up in it. In that way, the movie is really a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried. As Lee, she fills her large, expressive eyes with a sense of unwavering belief — appropriate for a woman who came to see herself as the reincarnation of Christ himself.  The movie is a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried Informed by an impoverished childhood and staggering personal losses as an adult, the 18th century Mancunian preached a utopian vision of society based in broad egalitarianism and a strict adherence to celibacy. Naturally, that led to persecution at home from the ruling evangelical order, prompting her eventual escape, along with her latent-homosexual brother (Lewis Pullman), bewildered husband (Christopher Abbott) and small flock of disciples, to the alleged promised land of America. Illustrating her life in the tones of a Dutch oil painting, Fastvold treats Lee’s faith with sincerity and respect, and Se

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2026 (so far)🗓️ The most anticipated movies of 2026🆕 What’s new on Netflix in April 2026📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far) 1. Send Help (Hulu) Bloody Sam is back. After a decade of IP work, Sam Raimi returns to what he knows best: a broad, gross and wickedly entertaining horror-adjacent survival thriller. Amy Adams and Dylan O’Brien are perfectly calibrated as work enemies – she’s the weird lady from accounting strategy and planning, he’s her nepo-baby douchebag boss – who end up stranded on a deserted island together, where the power dynamic immediately flips… then flips, then flips again, until it’s impossible to tell who you should be rooting for, if anyone. Read Time Out’s review. Watch Send Help now on Hulu 2. Greenland 2: Migration (HBO Max) The first Greenland was a standout disaster flick, with Gerard Butler and family heading to the land mass soon to be renamed Donald Trump Island after an extinction-level event in hopes of securing a spot in a rumoured underground b

Fights, roasts and Alfred Molina highlight Netflix’s May slate. If you’re a fan of MMA, or just sports trainwrecks in general, by far the month’s biggest event is the live match pitting two of the most decorated (and problematic) women fighters of all-time, Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano, against each other for the first time. If you’re pretty much the exact opposite of an MMA fan, you’re probably most looking forward to the return of the Tina Fey-Steve Carell comedy series The Four Seasons – or perhaps the movie where Sally Field befriends an octopus whose internal monologue is narrated by Alfred Molina. Elsewhere, Kevin Hart gets roasted, Martin Shorts gets a documentary, Michael B Jordan turns into a forest critter and the Stranger Things creators return with a show about a group of senior paranormal investigators led by – who else? – Alfred Molina. What’s new on Netflix April 2026 at a glance: 📍Movies: Swapped (May 1), Remarkably Bright Creatures (May 8), Ladies First (May 22)📍Shows: The Four Seasons season 2 (May 28), Legends (May 7), Nemesis (May 14) 📍Limited Series: The Boroughs (May 21), Lord of the Flies (May 1)📍Documentaries: Marty, Life is Short (May 12), The Crash (May 15)  📍Live Events: Ronda Rousey vs Gina Carano (May 16), The Road of Kevin Hart (May 10)   Recommended: 🇳 The best movies on Netflix💻 The best Netflix original series to binge📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 Swapped  In a quirk of scheduling, Michael B Jordan’s first role after his b

Norjalaisen Mona Fastvoldin The Testament of Ann Lee on kummallinen, lumoava ja rapsodinen elämys – tällaisia elokuvia ei juuri ole. Vai tuleeko mieleen toista historiallista kansanmusiikkimusikaalia lähes kadonneesta uskonnollisesta liikkeestä, joka muuttaa seuraajiensa kouristuksenomaiset hartaudenosoitukset suureellisiksi tanssinumeroiksi?  Shakers-nimellä (vapisijat) tunnetun kristillisen lahkon perustajan, Ann Leen, elämäkertakuvaus on vuoroin täysin häikäisevä ja tyystin hämmentävä. Parhaina hetkinään se ei ainoastaan kuvaa uskonnollista hurmosta – se tempaa katsojan siihen mukaan. Tässä mielessä elokuva on todistusvoimainen näyttö Amanda Seyfriedin roolisuorituksesta. Leen roolissa hän täyttää suuret, ilmeikkäät silmänsä järkähtämättömällä uskolla – mikä onkin sopivaa hahmolle, joka alkoi pitää itseään Kristuksen reinkarnaationa. Elokuva tempaa katsojan mukaan uskonnolliseen hurmokseen Köyhän lapsuuden ja aikuisiän musertavien menetysten värittämä 1700-luvun manchesterilainen saarnasi utooppista visiota yhteiskunnasta, joka perustuisi laajaan tasa-arvoon ja tiukkaan selibaattiin. Luonnollisesti se johti vainoon kotimaassa, ja lopulta Ann Lee pakeni luvattuun maahan Amerikkaan yhdessä piilevästi homoseksuaalin veljensä (Lewis Pullman), hämmentyneen aviomiehensä (Christopher Abbott) ja pienen opetuslapsilauman kanssa.  Fastvold kuvittaa Leen elämän hollantilaisen öljyvärimaalauksen sävyillä ja kohtelee tämän uskoa vilpittömyydellä ja kunnioituksella. Seyfried vastaa tähä

After an interminably long awards season that had us arguing over cats and ballet by the end of it, the 98th annual Academy Awards are finally, mercifully over. And, after one of the more unpredictable closing stretches of the race in recent years, we more or less ended up where most of us thought we would three months go, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another ruling the night. The political action thriller won six awards, including Best Picture, with Anderson winning his first Best Director statuette and the conspicuously absent Sean Penn collecting his third overall, this time for Best Supporting Actor. Casting director Cassandra Kulukundis also won the inaugural award for Best Casting. As for One Battle’s arch rival, Sinners, the Ryan Coogler-directed period vampire gangster blues musical blockbuster made history in a few different ways. After being nominated for a record-breaking 16 nominations, it ended up setting a record for most losses, winning four and losing 12. In perhaps the most surprising win of the night, at least given the longstanding predictions, star Michael B Jordan took home Best Actor, a victory that seemed like a longshot up until he prevailed at the Actor Awards two weeks. He is only the sixth Black actor to win the category. Coogler lost out on director but won Best Original Screenplay, becoming the third to win in either screenwriting category. (Anderson won Best Adapted Screenplay.) Ludwig Göransson won his third Oscar for Best Origin

Os amantes de livros têm um ano muito especial pela frente, tanto nas salas de cinema como nas plataformas de streaming. Entre os gigantes da literatura cujas obras vão ser adaptadas encontram-se Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus e Don Winslow. Mas o mais excitante de tudo é talvez o regresso do grande mestre da narrativa épica: Homero vai receber o toque de Christopher Nolan, em versão IMAX, com a adaptação de A Odisseia, com estreia prevista para o Verão. BookTokers, façam uma pausa no desafio de leitura de 2026 e vão ao cinema: este é o vosso momento. O Monte dos Vendavais A adaptação literária de Emerald Fennell promete lançar um verdadeiro cocktail Molotov sobre o debate cultural do início de 2026. A tórrida história de amor de Emily Brontë vai receber uma versão bem à maneira de Fennell, com músicas de Charli XCX, um elenco de fazer correr tinta (Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi) e até aspas provocatórias no título do cartaz, como se fosse suposto dizê-lo com ironia. O Monte dos Vendavais pode ser um marco do romantismo literário, mas está longe de ser propriamente romântico, pelo que o slogan “a maior história de amor de todos os tempos” poderá deixar os puristas algo confusos.Estreia: 12 de Fevereiro Abaixo de Zero David Koepp adaptou Parque Jurássico, de Michael Crichton, mas aqui assume o papel de autor-realizador de uma história muito ao estilo do próprio Crichton. O romance, publicado em 2019 (e dois anos depois em Portugal), parte de uma premi

Book lovers have a year to savour in store for them at the movie theatre and on streaming. Among the literary giants having their work adapted are Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus and Don Winslow. Most excitingly, the big dog of epic storytelling, Homer, is getting the IMAX-enhanced Christopher Nolan treatment with this summer’s adaption of The Odyssey. BookTokers, this is your moment. Photograph: Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s literary adaptation is sure to lob a Molotov cocktail in the general direction of early 2026’s cultural discourse. Emily Brontë’s toxic love story is getting a proper Fennelling, with Charlie XCX songs, a buzz-worthy cast (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi) and provocative quote marks around the title on the poster like you’re supposed to say it in a sarcastic way. Wuthering Heights may be a landmark Romantic novel but it’s not exactly small ’r’ romantic, so that ‘the greatest love story of all time’ tagline may mystify literary types. In cinemas worldwide Feb 13 Photograph: HarperCollins Cold Storage David Koepp adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, but the writer-director has his own Crichton-esque monster tale in the shape of his 2019 novel. It delivers a Cold War-era sci-fi premise in a modern setting, with a military facility breach unleashing a parasitic fungus on employees at a self-storage facility. Liam Neeson, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Sosie Bacon will be hoping to swerve the blob. The lat

Ya se siente la Navidad, sobre todo en las plataformas de streaming. Cada año, un buen puñado de películas festivas con sabor a roscón salen de la cadena de montaje directas a tu tele (y, de vez en cuando, a los cines). La mayoría son directamente malas, algunas son tan malas que resultan buenas y unas pocas son realmente buenas… o, al menos, lo bastante autoconscientes como para ofrecer una noche divertida reunidos alrededor del brillo de la pantalla. Más raras aún son las que se convierten en auténticos fenómenos virales. En 2024, la fruta escarchada se la llevó Un muñeco de nieve para derretirse, la comedia romántica invernal de Netflix sobre un muñeco de nieve buenorro que cobra vida. ¿Hay alguna película del catálogo de este año que pueda alcanzar ese status? Hemos revisado lo mejorcito de la cosecha navideña de 2025 y las hemos clasificado según sus posibilidades de ponerse tan de moda como "Frosty", el muñequito de nieve. Fotografía: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC En busca de Joy (Prime Video) Ideal para: Amantes de Tyler Perry ¿Tyler Perry presentando Misery como una comedia romántica? En la nueva película del incansable guionista-director-productor, Shannon Thornton interpreta a una diseñadora de moda neoyorquina insatisfecha con la trayectoria de su carrera que sigue a su crush hasta Colorado, solo para acabar derrapando en una carretera helada, donde es rescatada por un ermitaño sorprendentemente guapo, interpretado por Tosin Morohunfola. ¿Le ens

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially on streaming services. Every year, a stuffed stocking’s worth of peppermint-sweet holiday flicks roll off the assembly line and onto your television (and occasionally theaters). Most are straight-up bad, some are so-bad-they’re-good, and a select few are genuinely good – or at least, self-aware enough to make for a fun night gathered ‘round the glow of the TV set. Rarer still are those which become legit viral phenomenons. In 2024, that was Hot Frosty, Netflix’s winking winter romcom about a hunky snowman come to life. Are there any films from this year’s slate that might attain the same status? We’ve perused the cream of the 2025 yuletide crop, and ranked them by their chances to get as hot as Frosty.  Recommended: 🎅🏻The best Christmas movies of all-time🎄The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year🎁The best Christmas specials of all-time Photograph: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Tyler Perry's Finding Joy (Prime Video) Ideal for: Tyler Perry completists Tyler Perry presents Misery as a romcom? In the indefatigable writer-director-producer’s latest, Shannon Thornton is a New York fashion designer dissatisfied with her career trajectory who follows her crush to Colorado, only to wind up skidding off an icy road where she’s rescued by an improbably handsome hermit, played by Tosin Morohunfola. Will this rugged mountain man teach her to appreciate the things that truly matter in life? No spoilers!

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fête trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, après tout : il existe tout un genre cinématographique consacré à l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement à ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie différence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-être parmi les œuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cérébral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantômes, massacres à la tronçonneuse et mélanges de monstres ? Là, on est pile dans le thème. Alors, pour vous aider à composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween à voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse américaine timide intègre une mystérieuse académie de ballet en Europe, où d’étranges phénomènes ne tardent pas à se manifester. Mais ce point de départ simple permet au maître du giallo de s’en donner à cœur joie : couleurs hallucinées, mises à mort stylisées, et bande-son cauchemardesque signée par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinéphiles. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni même 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’année débarque déjà sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du réalisateur Danny Boyle et du scénariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagé par le tristement célèbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisième volet de la saga entamée en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du réalisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel épisode prend quelques libertés, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des événements du précédent film. Situé près de trois décennies après l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectés en machines à tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dépeint des îles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues à une forme de stabilité, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mère de ce dernier, rongée par une mystérieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitié, en une méditation profondément émouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intégrante de la vie. Porté par une bande-annonce déjà culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonné au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. Côté criti